Quilters lead busy lives. We work, manage households, cart kids around, make sure the family has food to eat and clean underwear. Sometimes fitting in a couple hours of uninterrupted sewing time is just a fantasy.
That’s where the Block a Day Challenge comes in. Here’s how it works. Take a few minutes for yourself each day to sew one quilt block. Then post an image of the block to the Block a Day Flickr Group. Each week I’ll post a round up on Quilt Addicts Anonymous of the blocks that were finished that week.
Not sure how to post photos to Flickr? Check out this tutorial.
Are there prizes? Of course there are prizes.
Each quilt block you post will count as one entry, but you will be limited to one entry per day. That means if you make 45 quilt blocks in the month of January, you’ll only receive 31 entries since there are only 31 days in that month. Blocks sewn by hand will receive 5 entries because Lord knows that takes time and dedication, just specify your construction method in the photo description to get credit.
You can get bonus entries for publishing photos of completed quilts made from blocks created for the Block a Day challenge. You’ll get 10 extra entries for posting a photo of a finished top, and 20 extra entries for posting a photo of a finished quilt. You’ll also get 20 extra entries for quilts donated to charity, just indicate the organization the quilt is going to in the photo description.
At the end of each month, one winner will be chosen at random from among the entries. The winner will receive a prize that will help them complete their quilt, such as batting, variegated quilting thread, backing fabric, basting pins and books on quilting.
And there also is the prize of actually finding time to finish quilts one half hour at a time.
By the numbers
Total – 22 participants, 745 blocks sewn, 14 tops completed, 23 quilts completed
Week 12 – 22 participants, 93 blocks sewn, 2 tops completed, 4 quilts completed
Week 11 – 22 participants, 137 blocks sewn, 1 top completed, 0 quilts completed
Week 10 – 22 participants, 61 blocks sewn, 1 top completed, 2 quilts completed
Week 9 – 20 participants, 77 blocks sewn, 3 tops completed 1 quilt completed
Week 8 – 20 participants, 82 blocks sewn, 1 top completed, 2 quilts completed
Week 7 – 19 participants, 121 blocks sewn, 0 tops completed, 1 quilt completed
Week 6 – 19 participants, 85 blocks sewn, 0 tops completed, 4 quilts completed
Week 5 – 17 participants, 27 blocks sewn, 0 tops completed, 5 quilts completed
Week 4 – 12 participants, 58 blocks sewn, 1 top completed, 1 quilt completed
Week 3 – 12 participants, 69 blocks sewn, 3 tops completed, 1 quilt completed
Week 2 – 10 participants, 29 blocks sewn, 2 tops completed, 2 quilts completed
Week 1 – 2 participants, 6 blocks sewn, 0 tops completed, 0 quilts completed
I’d like to join this challenge but don’t know if it is necessary to suscribe somewhere… could it be possible that I just don’t find the answer by myself?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
You just have to post photos of your quilt blocks to the Flickr group.
This sounds great! Perfectly doable…and will encourage me to sew at least a little everyday–instead of just pushing it off because I don’t have a huge chunk of time each day…
I hope you join us!
I finally figured out how to do this I hope. Anyway, I have posted my first block! Thanks for doing this, it is lighting the fire underneath me to get some UFO’s done.
Is there a pattern and directions for the sock monkey quilt?
I’m going to work on writing it this month and hopefully will have it up by March.
Okay, I just got a tutorial from a friend. The quilt tops and blocks I added are from Jan to now. Thanks! Bev
I know this is March already … do you still have room for the fun?
You’re welcome to join us. The entries start over at zero each month so everyone has an equal chance to win.
Is there a pattern for the blocks you are doing?
I’m working on writing it up now. I’ve got a lot of math to do so I can write up the fabric requirements for different sizes.